Google LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)

[Bapun]

The next big thing in Natural Language Understanding -> LaMDA. A language model for dialogue applications. LaMDA understands millions of topics and designed to converse on any topic. It helps drive natural conversations.

LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology

LaMDA adds pieces to one of the most tantalizing sections of the language puzzle: conversation.

blog.google

 

[Bapun]

Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person.

Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave last month, said he had violated company policies and that it found his claims on LaMDA to be "wholly unfounded."

Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person.

www.reuters.com

 

[basilbyrne98]

The Google engineer is talking nonsense.
The big new NLP models just calculate the probabilities of the relationships between the tokens (i.e. words or word fragments) and can then relate that probabilistic meaning to a series of potential answers generated in a similar way.